Polycyclina Theiss. & Syd., Annls mycol. 13(3/4): 212 (1915).

MycoBank number: MB 4310; Index Fungorum number: IF 4310; Facesoffungi number: FoF 02327; 1 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2020), molecular data unavailable.

Type species: Polycyclina rhytismoides (Speg.) Theiss. & Syd., Annls mycol. 13(3/4): 212 (1915).

≡ Hysterostomella rhytismoides Speg., Boln Acad. nac. Cienc. Córdoba 11(4): 580 (1889).

Notes: The monotypic genus Polycyclina is parasitic on living leaves of Lomaria imperalis (drawing see Thambugala et al. 2014b; Wijayawardene et al. 2018, 2020). Polycyclina is characterized by solitary, superficial, circular to elliptical to irregular, disc-like, black, rather flat ascostromata, clavate to cylindric-clavate asci and ellipsoid to cylindric-ellipsoid, dark brown, aseptate ascospores (Thambugala et al. 2014b).

Species

  • Polycyclina rhytismoides